There is a somewhat unhealthy obsession with antibiotic resistance. The problem is not as scary as it may sound. It turns out that antibiotic-resistant strains are much weaker than normal strains in the absence of antibiotics (because they use a great deal of resources to be antibiotic resistant), and they tend to disappear quickly.
It's not a big deal for healthy people and non fatal diseases. It's however a big deal when you need antibiotics the most.
So, the choice is to reserve them to the most extreme cases which will save the most human lives possible. Or, use them all over the place improving the average quality of life at the expense of significantly more people dying.
I think it's reasonable for humanity to pick either option, but pretending it's not an important choice is over simplified.
There are deaths from resistant strains. Because people got an infection, and there was no medicine to treat it. Untreated infections are like russian roulette - many survive them, but not all. After centuries where people would just die of infections, we had a few good decades. Where we had many viruses covered by vacinations and bacterial infections by antibiotics. But vaccination rates are not as good as they could be, and we are putting the antibiotics at risk. That is a step back.
